Pāli Dictionary

gopaka1

guprootakasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

gup1厭惡

general

  • 守衛；看守人；監護人（守護某物者）

  • guardian; watchman; one who guards or watches over something

  • MN 108

    taggha, brāhmaṇa, veḷuvanaṃ ramaṇīyañ'c'eva appasaddañ'ca appanigghosañ'ca vijanavātaṃ manussarāhasseyyakaṃ paṭisallānasāruppaṃ, yathā taṃ tumhādisehi rakkhakehi gopakehī'ti.

  • 牧牛人；放牛者

  • cowherd; one who tends cattle

  • 監督者；司庫；主管財物者

  • superintendent; treasurer; an official in charge of oversight

  • MN 108

    atha kho āyasmato ānandassa etadahosi, atippago kho tāva rājagahe piṇḍāya carituṃ. yaṃnūn'āhaṃ yena gopakamoggallānassa brāhmaṇassa kamm'anto, yena gopakamoggallāno brāhmaṇo ten'upasaṅkameyyan'ti.

gopaka2

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • 苟波迦（天神）：忉利天中一位天神之名，前生為釋迦族女僕苟毘迦（品行賢善），其偈頌見於《帝釋所問經》。

  • Gopaka: name of a deva in Tāvatiṃsa, formerly a virtuous Sākiyan maidservant named Gopikā; his verses appear in the Sakka-pañha-sutta.

  • DN 21

    idhā'pi maṃ evaṃ jānanti gopako devaputto gopako devaputto'ti. tumhe pana, mārisā, bhagavati brahmacariyaṃ caritvā hīnaṃ gandhabbakāyaṃ upapannā.

Encyclopedia

3 entries

Gopaka
Person

  • 一位長老，曾在波吒釐子城的雞園寺掛單，在那裡獲贈一套袈裟。

  • An elder who once stayed at the Kukkuṭārāma in Pāṭaliputta, where he was given a set of robes.

Gopaka2
Person

  • 九十一劫前的一位國王，曾以夾竹桃花供養佛陀，是迦納維羅補皮耶長老的前生。

  • A king of ninety-one world-cycles ago who offered oleander flowers to the Buddha, a previous birth of the elder Kaṇaverapupphiya.

Gopaka3
Person

  • 一位天神，前生為迦毗羅衛一位品行高潔、立願轉為男身的釋迦族女子瞿比迦，死後轉生忉利天為天子，曾斥責因懈怠而只轉生為乾闥婆的比丘，其偈頌載於《帝釋所問經》。

  • A deva who had been a virtuous Sakyan maid named Gopikā in Kapilavatthu and was reborn in Tāvatiṃsa as a devaputta after cultivating a man’s resolve; there he rebuked monks reborn as mere Gandhabbā, and his verses are recorded in the Sakkapañha Sutta.

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